Augustness

August is vacation month, but Tony Hayward is vacationing early. He deserves watching his boat "Bob" participate in the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race since this is - pitiably! - his “first break since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20,” said Robert Wine, a BP spokesman. After all, he is just “spending a few hours with his family at a weekend. I'm sure that everyone would understand that.” Perhaps everybody would, but will everybody understand?
Wine, according to the Huffington Post(6/19), also said that Hayward will be returning to the United States, though it's unclear when. Will he return, or would he?
Could it be that it will be August before he is back at the Gulf Coast? He then could mingle with American vacationers there, maybe even with the presidential family. After all, "Americans can help by continuing to visit the communities and beaches of the Gulf Coast." With few exceptions, Obama said at a May 27 press conference, "all of the Gulf's beaches are open. They are safe and they are clean." Asked whether the Obamas themselves will – or would – vacation somewhere along the Gulf this summer, Press Secretary Gibbs admitted that he has “not been involved in their August plans” (McClatchy Newspapers via WSJ).
Since spoken statements do not indicate which word the speaker would capitalize, Gibbs could have referred here to Obama’s august plans (from Latin augustus, meaning venerable, marked by majestic dignity or grandeur and, according to the Online Etymological Dictionary, probably orginally "consecrated by the augurs, with favorable auguries"). Gibbs, whom the LATimes dubbed a “human pinata,” then would have taken Nicholas Kristof obviously too literally, who announced today that We need a monarch!